Home Chef Review 2025: Does the Popular Meal Kit Live Up to the Hype?

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“I found Home Chef meals painless (a pleasure, really) to follow,” Griggs says. “The recipes were cleanly designed, noting what was in my kit, what I’d additionally need, how long it would take to prepare, what temperature the proteins needed to be cooked to, how quickly they needed to be cooked, and clear step-by-step directions with photos.”

Griggs found some discrepancies between the recipes’ predicted cooking time and how long it actually took her to make her food, however. “It usually took me around 20 more minutes to prep and cook each meal from what the recipe predicted,” she says. “The steak with garlic-herb butter said it would take 35 to 45 minutes but actually took me an hour. While the recipe for crispy shrimp claimed it would take two to three minutes to sear the shrimp per side, cooking them took over 15 minutes.”

For McCarty, none of the meals took more than 45 mins to put together. “As a very rookie chef, it opened my eyes to some efficient kitchen techniques I simply hadn’t thought of before,” she says “The recipes are super easy to follow but still involved enough that the results have a nice presentation and flavor combo.”

If you’re looking to cook on a tight time frame—or if you have no interest in slicing and dicing—the oven-ready meals might be the best option for you.

Is Home Chef healthy?

As dietitian Nazima Qureshi, RD, MPH, noted in our buying guide, “One of the biggest issues I have seen with meal kits is that at the surface level they may seem healthy because they have healthy ingredients, but the recipes are put together with the priority to taste good.” She recommends looking at macros and calories to see if meals are nutritionally balanced.

Home Chef displays the basic nutrition facts (calories, protein, sodium, etc.) and lets you toggle between carb-light, calorie-light, and veggie-only options to see how the numbers change. Griggs notes that when she tested the service, the meals’ sodium content stuck out to her. “Per serving, save the salad, all of the dishes I ordered were upwards of 1,200 milligrams of sodium per serving (1,740, in the case of the crispy shrimp rice bowl),” she says. “The FDA recommends limiting sodium intake to less than 2,300 milligrams per day (i.e., one teaspoon of salt), which would be tough if you combined a serving of a Home Chef meal with two more meals.

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Are the meals tasty?

Griggs found the meals filling and satisfying. “What I ordered was undeniably yummy,” she says. “The crispy tofu tacos were made deliciously tangy with the pineapple salsa, and the brussels sprout risotto was rich and crunchy with its touches of goat cheese and roasted pecans. Given my customary diet of Seamless, where I’m clueless about nutrition and ingredients, these meals were a welcome change. Even the creamier dishes added variety and veggies to my diet.”

McCarty was impressed by the variety and was especially fond of the vegetarian options, even though she doesn’t follow a plant-based diet. “The vegetarian meals I sampled were great and I would select them on my own,” she says. “I thought the food was delicious and I was impressed with how high quality the protein was!”

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